Archive for January, 2015

LOWELL — The Whistler House Museum of Art is seeking artwork that addresses genocide for an upcoming exhibition running March 18-April 25. The deadline for entries is February 6. The exhibition will bring attention to “genocide,” the systematic, widespread extermination or attempted extermination of an entire national, racial, religious or ethnic group. It will use

ACTON – Theatre III tackles the searing quandaries related to mortality in its production of The Shadow Box, a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play by Michael Cristofer. Directed by Gary M. Kendall and produced by Linda Minkoff, performances are at the 250 Central Street theater in West Acton on January 30, 31 and February

LOWELL – The Art Department at UMass Lowell offers an out-of-this-world experience — literally —for art lovers in Sean Downey: MARS, on view in the University Gallery through February 20. All are welcome to a talk and reception with Downey on Thursday, January 29. His talk begins at 3 p.m. in the O’Leary Library, Room

BOSTON — Motown the Musical, a cure for the mid-winter blues, blasts into the Boston Opera House for a two-week run January 27-February 15. Through pulsating Motown hit songs, it tells the story of Motown founder Berry Gordy. Starting as a featherweight boxer, he rose to become a heavyweight music mogul who launched the careers

LOWELL — Eye-popping colors brighten the walls of the Whistler House Museum of Art in An Eye For Color: Works by Ann Christensen and Anne Silber, on view January 28-March 7. A reception takes place on Saturday, February 7, 2-4 p.m. Christensen’s expressive use of color earned her the National Faber Birren Color Award in

The Brush Art Gallery and Studios and the New England Quilt Museum banish winter drabness and bring color to Lowell in new exhibitions opening this week. The Brush, at 256 Market Street, features Impressionism from the Cape School of Art, on view January 17-Feb. 28, with a reception January 24, 2-4 p.m. (Snow date January

LITTLETON — Cannon Theatre offers a new look at the merry old Land of Oz in its latest show Return to Oz. The production, based on the second and third books by L. Frank Baum and adapted and with original music by Shawn Cannon, plays the theater on Littleton Common January 23, 24, 30, 31

LOWELL — The Arts League of Lowell presents Grey Scale, its newest and largest exhibition to date, running January 9-February 22 in the ALL Gallery, 307 Market Street. Showcasing works by 56 local artists, including many ALL members, the exhibit features over 100 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional pieces. The artists were challenged to explore light, tone,

“Mom always liked you best.” It’s been a favorite sibling rivalry theme since the ancient Greeks dramatized it and the Smothers Brothers used it as a running gag on their hit late-‘60s TV show. Now, Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor revisits the concept in his 2012 play The Best Brothers, which has its East Coast premiere

“Mom always liked you best.” It’s been a favorite sibling rivalry theme since the ancient Greeks dramatized it and the Smothers Brothers used it as a running gag on their hit late-‘60s TV show. Now, Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor revisits the concept in his 2012 play The Best Brothers, which has its East Coast premiere